Abdolkarim Hasheminejad

Sayyid Abdolkarim Hasheminejad (Persian: سیّد عبدالکریم هاشمی‌نژاد; 27 July 1932 – 29 September 1981) was an Iranian dissident cleric of the Pahlavi regime, preacher, writer and seminary lecturer who was assassinated after the revolution of 1979.

He held lectures at the "Religious Debate and Criticism Center" run by Hassan Abtahi.

He studied many fields apart from religion, holding discussions and classes with young people, especially students, from which some of his books resulted.

He was a writer, a passionate and knowledgeable public speaker and a famed Seminary teacher.

On 30 September 1981,[7] a suicide bomber infiltrated the office of the Islamic Republican Party and assassinated Hasheminejad.